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潜移默化

qián yí mò huà

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word Traditional 潛移默化

潜移默化 (qián yí mò huà) means "imperceptible influence; to influence secretly". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 潜移默化 means

1. imperceptible influence
2. to influence secretly

The characters in 潜移默化

• 潜qiánhidden; secret; latent
• 移yíto move; to shift; to change
• 默mòsilent; to write from memory
• 化huàto make into; to change into; -ization

Where 潜移默化 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · qiǎng–qiáo (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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